Public bug reported: In a default install of Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, applications that follow the XDG icon theme spec to find icons for mime types do not work.
For instance, one such program is Chromium, which searches /usr/share/icons/[current_theme], /usr/share/icons/gnome, and /usr/share/icons/hicolor to look for icons. It will search these directories for foo.ext, where "ext" is svg, png, or xpm. If the mimetype is "image/png", it will search for image-png.ext, gnome-mime- image-png.ext, image-x-generic.ext, and unknown.ext. In Ubuntu 10.04, icons like gnome-mime-image-png.svg are in the Humanity directory, which I believe to be the default theme, so it worked. If the user switches themes, then image-x-generic.png from /usr/share/icons/gnome is the fallback icon, so that worked. However, in Ubuntu 11.10, the default theme is ubuntu-mono-dark, but all the icons are in the Humanity theme. As a result, searching in /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark fails. In which case, it falls back to /usr/share/icons/gnome. However, /usr/share/icons/gnome contains very few icons, and we end up not finding any icons. ** Affects: gnome-icon-theme (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-icon-theme in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883314 Title: Missing mimetype icons in gnome-icon-theme To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-icon-theme/+bug/883314/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs